Question

The importance of compromise in government by examining and explaining The Great Compromise and The Three Fifths Compromise.

Answer 1

Great Compromise:
The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787) an agreement reached at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 that largely decided the structure of the United States Congress. It was proposed by James Madison.

The Great Compromise of 1787 fit the definition of compromise by creating a bicameral federal legislature that satisfied both the large states and the small states who favored the Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan respectively. Under the compromise, one house of the legislature was elected on the basis of population, while the other provided all states to have an equal vote, thus protecting the rights of large and small states alike. In all likelihood the colonies would have become two or more smaller nations and the United States would never have existed had the compromise not been reached.


Three Fifths Compromise:

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives. It was proposed by delegates James Wilson and Roger Sherman.

This compromised had a major effect on pre-Civil War political affairs due to the disproportionate representation of slaveholding states relative to voters. So this compromise was best for the Southern states.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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